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...embraced fiscal sobriety, strengthening Brazil's currency, the real, and reforming a bloated civil service pension system. Those policies and a windfall in commodities fueled a boom--the economy will grow 5% or more again this year, and inflation is historically low. Even his rivals acknowledge that despite his firebrand image, Lula has been a deft political operator. "The danger with Lula is that he can be rather messianic," says Rubens Ricúpero, a Finance Minister in the 1990s, when Lula opposed the market reforms he now backs. "But he's one of the most intelligent politicians in the world...
...preaches peace. But on the subject of extremists, he can sound like a Washington hawk. "We need to capture all the scholars who are preaching violence, and, if we must, even kill them," he says. "Their danger is that they can affect the whole country." Recently, he confronted a firebrand preacher who had exhorted Muslims to kill Christians. "Do you believe Allah is wise and that all things come from Allah?" Marwani asked. The preacher did. "Even that Mercedes you drive?" the sheik pressed on. "Because if you kill all the Christians, there won't be any of them left...
...Phillies fill the bill. If the phrase ''winning ugly'' had a face, it would belong to left fielder Pete Incaviglia, who thunders toward a pop fly and doesn't catch it so much as consume it. If ugly had an attitude, it would belong to center fielder and team firebrand Lenny (''Nails'') Dykstra, the Dead End Kid with an endless muddy stream of epithets and tobacco juice. If it had a clotheshorse, it would be John Kruk, the Shmoo-shaped first baseman who tore his pants lunging for a ball early in the final game and, either defiantly or absentmindedly...
...years after he left Columbia, but his horizons never again expanded, while his coy mannerisms became more pronounced. By the time of his 1986 return to Russia, he had become a musical dwarf star, with an imploding repertory and an arch delivery that only occasionally approximated the youthful firebrand or the mature, thoughtful artist he had once been. The Columbia set records that brief moment when he put it all together and cemented his place in history. For now, at least...
Just five months into his tenure as Prime Minister, Samak - a veteran right-wing firebrand who is equally as famous in Thailand for his T.V. cooking show - is now fighting for his political life. Not only has he lost three linchpins in his People's Power Party (PPP), but one of the court decisions could also spell the end of the entire party. Thailand's constitution mandates that a political party can be dissolved if one of its executives is found guilty of a crime. House speaker Yongyut was the PPP's deputy leader, and therefore the party - itself...